Inevitablity?

Zombi Bobb · Post by **Zombi Bobb** » Sun Dec 02, 2001 1:57 am

In today's strip there was a key word that entered into my eyes and tehn stuck to my brain after finishing the rest. that word was Senior. Having just today finished the archives and beginning to post on this here message board, I must say I am troubled by the unstoppable, immovable force that accompanies the status of Senior. That overwhelmingly terrifying force is none other than...GraduationI realize that there is a whole year ahead, or is there? Or will time warp itself in manners that will freeze it's passage yet let folk move about in it's sister force of space? Answers to these forboding and bone-chilling question I do not have. Is that cloud on the horizon a doom-filled cloud of sadnessy away-taking of nice people? Or is merely my own fears coalescing into a malignant nebulous of haze in my own eyeballs of the mind?I don't know. I just. don't. know.Zombi Bobb------------------
"One of the many advantages of being as cool as me is that you don't get eaten by cannibals." -Brak

Zombi Bobb · Post by **Zombi Bobb** » Sun Dec 02, 2001 2:11 am

Okay, yes I am replying to my own message. Yes, that's like talking to yourself. Yes, m-hm. Your right.
BUT TOO BAD! AAAHHhahahahahaa!Wait, anyway, what was I doing? Oh yeah.By "today's" I meant friday's.Also, I have realized that while Will is a senior and graduation could possibly mean his departure, which would make me cry (way to go making a grown -yet childish- man cry), that doesn't mean he would go away. Shanna isn't in college any more, yet there she is! Not being gone! But then again, she is local because she chooses to be, would this be the choice Will would make? I am not knowing what the theatre scene around Billberg College is like, perhaps the college theatre itself is in need of staffing.Or maybe I am worrying about something much too early. Maybe I'm missing something vital, probably, but the anxiety! It kills! It kiiillllllllllllssss!Zombi Bobb------------------
"One of the many advantages of being as cool as me is that you don't get eaten by cannibals." -Brak

FrustratedPilot · Post by **FrustratedPilot** » Sun Dec 02, 2001 3:04 am

Three words: Post Graduate Studies.That is why Kath, who graduated in '94 (according to a previous strip) is still in the skiffy club. (Or did she drop out for a few years to take care of her kids? Perhaps we'll never know.)

Keith · Post by **Keith** » Sun Dec 02, 2001 3:05 am

Kath isn't in college either, nor are Alisin (as far as we know) or the veteran guy. I don't think Will's going anyplace soon.------------------
*In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.* - Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy)

Zombi Bobb · Post by **Zombi Bobb** » Sun Dec 02, 2001 3:07 am

Yet again, I reply to myself!I danged forgot! Katherine, while she was convinced to stay, agreed to only another year! Yarg! Why is it that almost everything new that I find seems to be unravelling?! So now, Will AND Katherine are predestined to leave! I was so happy before I had the ability to assimilate information and decipher it into understandable jibber jabber in my skull! No! Mind reeling yet freezing at same time! Going. to. 'splode.Zombi Bobb------------------
"One of the many advantages of being as cool as me is that you don't get eaten by cannibals." -Brak

Zombi Bobb · Post by **Zombi Bobb** » Sun Dec 02, 2001 3:13 am

Aha! I now reply to others!Hooray! Thank you for showing me that up ahead is not a cliff's edge of unimaginable falling-into-ness. Instead is a mighty bridge to cross the gorge of things-that-troubled-me-before-but-don't-any-longer.Zombi Bobb------------------
"One of the many advantages of being as cool as me is that you don't get eaten by cannibals." -Brak

GarrisonBeckett · Post by **GarrisonBeckett** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 1:35 am

For the record, I'm still here in the 'Burg post-graduation (which makes me wonder if my counterpart WILL be, too? ^_~) ... and for the record, I am dating a Freshmen girl who showed interest in me right away ... ::shudder:: Does FANS! imitate life, or life imitate FANS!?--GB"Guys, if I'm still hanging out with Skiffy at 26, kill me. I'll have no life, anyway!" --me

Czhorat · Post by **Czhorat** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 5:30 am

Assuming I didn't hallucinate it, T did mention somewhere on this board that Fans! does have at least a semi-planned out story, complete with a beginning, a middle, and, alas, an end. I'm assuming the end is not coming immediately (we have only had about 2 years of Fans! online), but I suspect that it will come. If and when it does, I will of course look forward to T's next project!

T Campbell · Post by **T Campbell** » Tue Dec 04, 2001 6:39 am

The five-year plan is one of the items under discussion at this Saturday's forum. Don't miss it!

Ebijin · Post by **Ebijin** » Tue Dec 04, 2001 7:03 am

...and force those damned unproductive peasants onto government owned farms in accordance with CORRECT SOCIAL PLANNING!~f
Staliniffic!------------------
There's a t.v. in my pocket
There's a lint ball in the corner
There's a cornflake in my brain pan
And a pie named Jimmy Horner

FlyingFish · Post by **FlyingFish** » Tue Dec 04, 2001 8:37 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by T Campbell:
The five-year plan is one of the items under discussion at this Saturday's forum. Don't miss it!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Five years, huh? I find it hard to believe that number was arbitrary..."Its five-year mission: to explore strange new tales! to seek out new life and new imaginations! to boldly go where no fan has gone before! Waaaa WAAAA wa wa wa wa waaaaaa...."

Czhorat · Post by **Czhorat** » Wed Dec 05, 2001 7:06 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by T Campbell:
The five-year plan is one of the items under discussion at this Saturday's forum. Don't miss it!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Unfortunately, I'll miss it. Tomorrow my Karen is finally getting released from the hospital after what should have been some exceedingly minor surgery, so I'll be taking some time off to help her convalesce. She's fine, but I wouldn't be being a good fiance if I hung around online during her first weekend back home.As far at the idea of a "5 year plan" goes, I have mixed feelings. I'd love to see Faans! go on forever, but find that stories work better if they have a beginning, middle, and an end. I think I'd be happier seeing T work on some other projects (perhaps even something Faans-related using some of the forgotten characters from the past couple years) than endlessly continue the adcentures of Rikk, Rumy, Will, Alisn er al...That's just my 2 cents.[This message has been edited by Czhorat (edited 12-05-2001).]

GodaiYuhsaku · Post by **GodaiYuhsaku** » Wed Dec 05, 2001 7:28 am

But after the end then we get the spinoffs.Pretty solider Rumi.
(Rumi's adventures in Japan as a budding manga-ka and magical superhero)
Faans: TNG
The continuing adventures with Tim as a gradstudent who helps the new group along.
God-fearing and Goth.
Alisin and Rikk's sitcom surrounding thier unusual marriage. Wacky Hijinks ensue.
heheGodai

Tom the Fanboy · Post by **Tom the Fanboy** » Wed Dec 05, 2001 12:16 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by GodaiYuhsaku:
Faans: TNG
The continuing adventures with Tim as a gradstudent who helps the new group along.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Good lord, it couldn't be any worse than Saved By The Bell, the New Class.I think it'd be even better if Tim became a professor at Billberg (we don't know what class he is do we?) teaching pop culture history and web classes right across the hall from Prof. Guthrie's math lab!------------------
Tom the Fanboy
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T Campbell · Post by **T Campbell** » Thu Dec 06, 2001 2:31 am

I expect it'll be a thread this time around... I'll be checking in through the day, but too busy to give a chat the attention a chat deserves...

EWHPTIV · Post by **EWHPTIV** » Thu Dec 06, 2001 11:03 am

Speaking (a while back) of the forum, what's the organization on that? Are we trying to do it live, through ICQ or AIM or something similar, or a thread which everyone reloads every five minutes...?------------------
"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend." --J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

Drooling Fan Girl · Post by **Drooling Fan Girl** » Fri Dec 07, 2001 1:53 am

Yup it is. I'll go set up the room now. And I will post here the pertainent info.Take Care
DFG

Muttley · Post by **Muttley** » Fri Dec 07, 2001 3:19 am

If the Forum is intended to run only on Saturday, then it is likely I will miss it too. My home machine has just popped its clogs, refusing adamantly to complete a dial-up networking call; it is a symptom of fatal Windows95 registry indigestion, and can only really be treated by a complete rebuild. The good side: I will have a nice clean installation again. The bad side; all the reinstallation work. I can't tackle it before tonight (Friday), and so may not be in touch again in time for Saturday. I won't be able to get to my alternative (work) connection until Monday.Czhorat: best wishes for a speedy recovery, and a virtual bunch of flowers, to Karen.Story arc; Somehow stories with a planned structure seem be more satisfying than "the episodes of a continuing cast of characters". For example, contrast "Watchmen" with, say, the Green Lantern body of work (parts of which I am not an expert on). Having a definite ending in mind, at least for this storyline/adventure/work-in-progress does not preclude spinoffs or related work in the same ficton, perhaps using some of the existing characters. And I hope, T, that you would at least give us a heads-up about any new works you started on.On the other hand there are strips that go on for years with a cast of characters and enjoy success; Peanuts, or perhaps with more relevance, Doonesbury. They do tend to be the 3-panels-and-a-punch-line format, I suppose because that's what sells to newspapers. Hope to be online for Saturday, but not counting on it . . . <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/frown.gif">Muttley

Drooling Fan Girl · Post by **Drooling Fan Girl** » Fri Dec 07, 2001 5:32 am

Unless someone would rather I didn't, I can set up a Fans! chatroom on nightstar.Take Care
DFG

T Campbell · Post by **T Campbell** » Fri Dec 07, 2001 5:57 am

Well, *I'm* in favor of that idea, for what it's worth. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif"> My schedule's insane, but I can always find a few moments to talk... and I'll let everyone know when I'm going to stop in...